<p>Now it makes sense. There are two different deadlines.</p>
<p>The April 7th deadline is accept or reject the scholarship. May 31st is the deadline to change college choice.</p>
<p>So you can accept the scholarship by April 7th and change the college choice by May 31st. You are not at disadvantage because of that.</p>
<p>Scholdades thread is given below. hopefully that should clear some of the confusion in this post.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1103731-how-choose-your-first-choice-college-national-merit-purposes.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1103731-how-choose-your-first-choice-college-national-merit-purposes.html</a></p>